While studying in Oslo he had been chairman of the Norwegian Students' Society during the student-led Protests of 1968.
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Mankell participated in the Protests of 1968 in Sweden, protesting against, among other things, the Vietnam War, the Portuguese Colonial War, and the Apartheid regime in South Africa.